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William E. (Brit) Kirwan, Ph.D., Chair (chosen by Governor, Senate President & House Speaker)
Appointed by Governor: Scott E. Dorsey; David M. Steiner, Ph.D.
Appointed by Senate President: Nancy J. King; William E. (Brit) Kirwan, Ph.D.; Richard S. Madaleno, Jr.; Paul G. Pinsky; Stephen M. Waugh.
Appointed by House Speaker: Kalman R. Hettleman; Adrienne A. Jones; Anne R. Kaiser; Maggie McIntosh; Alonzo T. Washington.
Appointed by State Superintendent of Schools: Margaret E. Williams
Legislative Services Building (from Lawyers Mall), Annapolis, Maryland, August 2010. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
Appointed by Executive Director, Maryland State Education Association: David E. Helfman
Appointed by President, Baltimore Teachers Union: Morgan Showalter
Appointed by Maryland Association of Boards of Education: Donna L. Brightman
Appointed by Public School Superintendents Association of Maryland: Stephen H. Guthrie
Appointed by Association of School Business Officials: Leslie R. Pellegrino
Appointed by Maryland PTA: Elizabeth Ysla Leight
Appointed by Executive Director, Maryland Association of Counties: Craig L. Rice; William R. Valentine.
Ex officio: David R. Brinkley, Secretary of Budget & Management; Karen B. Salmon, Ph.D., State Superintendent of Schools; Robert L. Caret, Ph.D., Chancellor, University System of Maryland.
Staff: Tiffany J. Clark; Rachel H. Hise; Erika S. Schissler.
c/o Office of Policy Analysis
Department of Legislative Services
Legislative Services Building, 90 State Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 946-5510
e-mail: erika.schissler@mlis.state.md.us
Final Report to Governor, Senate Budget & Taxation Committee, Senate Education, Health, & Environmental Affairs Committee, House Appropriations Committee, & House Ways & Means Committee due Dec. 31, 2017 (Chapter 702, Acts of 2016).
In June 2016, the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education formed (Chapter 702, Acts of 2016).
The Commission is to review and assess current education financing formulas and accountability measures, and how each local school system is spending its funds, including the increased State funds provided through the Bridge to Excellence in Public Schools Act (Chapter 288, Acts of 2002). Moreover, the Commission will review the Study on Adequacy of Funding for Education in the State of Maryland, required by the Bridge to Excellence in Public Schools Act. That study is to be released in December 2016. Further, the Commission will consider how the federal Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (P. L. 114-95) will affect primary and secondary education in Maryland, and how best to prepare students to compete in the workforce and the global economy.
Based on its review and assessment, the Commission will make recommendations for legislative and policy initiatives to increase the availability of innovative educational opportunities, and make adequate and equitable the funding for State public education.
Authorization for the Commission ends May 31, 2018.
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